AskDrCallahan Scholarship Program: Making Sure Every Student is Well Prepared for College and For Life

When you want to give your kids a quality, college preparatory education, you shouldn’t have to cut corners just because money is too tight to swing the cost of good materials. Yet, several times a year we are contacted by families that are in just that situation. They want to give their kids the quality education we offer at AskDrCallahan, but for various reasons they cannot afford the cost of buying our materials.

To try and help out, we  have opened the

AskDrCallahan Scholarship Program

This program exists to help parents provide a quality, college-preparatory education to their kids no matter what their income, financial situation, or hardship situation might be. In these economically difficult times, the need is especially great and as stewards of our gifts and talents here at AskDrCallahan, we feel that we need to do what we can to make sure all kids get a solid academic preparation for their futures.

We have several options available to families who need the scholarship program from discounted materials, to free stuff, and more.

To find out what options are available for your family, please contact us. support@askdrcallahan.com

If you’re not in need of a scholarship program, you can still help. Consider spreading the word, selling back your textbooks, or donating to the program.

For more details on how you can help, please contact us. Support@askdrcallahan.com.

We will be glad to talk with you.

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Making Your Books Last for Several Kids

Many homeschool parents have multiple kids, and they don’t want to buy new books every year just because it’s time for the next kid to take 5th grade science.

So here are some tips on things you can do to make those textbooks survive the family.

1. Run copies of workbooks and turn them into worksheets. That way you have a blank work sheets for many students (and you preserve the binding so that you don’t wear out the book)

2. Have students that are close in age work through the course together.

3. Use a textbook cover (the classic paper bag cover allows for creativity and personalization with your students so they can be “unique”). :) Covers protect the book and increase longevity.

4. Consider ebooks, these you can reprint and save as well as replace when things like the dog eats them, or you spill koolaid on it. :)

What things have you done to make your books last a long time? Post comments for other parents so they can use your ideas too!

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More than a distributor, we have our own curriculum

AskDrCallahan lists itself as offering a “curriculum” because we are not simply a distributor of Harold Jacobs’ material. We have used his textbooks in a couple of our courses, but what we do at AskDrCallahan is we take a textbook and we build a course around it.

What this means is that we have taken the textbook and we assign homework, assign certain weeks in which to complete that homework, as well as make up our own test, test grading guide, teachers guide, and several other materials that we provide for you to use.

In this way, AskDrCallahan is a curriculum (with our own method for teaching) as opposed to just a distributor.

If you have questions about our products, or need any clarification, you can reach us at support@askdrcallahan.com

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Requesting a “Representative Sample”

If you are working with a school system or a homeschool cooperative, you are already looking into your coursework for next year.

Often when searching for the right math (or any) course, getting a “representative sample”, or desk copy, of a course curriculum can be helpful in evaluating which course you want your students to buy.

Homeschooling parents can  request a desk copy of the textbooks offered in the AskDrCallahan courses, by contacting the textbook’s publisher directly. (The publishing company is listed on any basic advertisement of the book–like amazon, or other such places and you can do an internet search of their name to find their website and contact information). We can help you with this if you need, but really it is easier (and faster) just to google them.

If you would like a desk copy of the AskDrCallahan materials (like the solutions manual –or other materials where we are the publisher) for the class you are teaching,  then let us know the school system, cover school, etc that you are working with and we should be able to get you one.

Contact us: support@askdrcallahan.com

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